[Daily Caller] President Obama admitted on Sunday that he "should've anticipated the optics" of golfing just minutes after a sober statement on the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, noting that "part of this job is also the theater of it."
Showing respect would have amounted to theater? Well in that case, thanks for being honest.
Obama sat down Sunday with NBC's new "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd for a wide-ranging interview that touched on immigration, ISIS and other White House challenges. But Todd made sure to ask about that golf game, a moment that even supporters of the president admitted made him look tone deaf and disengaged.
Sorry, no picking this one up from the clean end. It's not simply the look, it's reality. |